Decoration: A: HERAKLES AND NESSOS, DEIANEIRA B: CENTAUROMACHY, KAINEUS, BETWEEN CENTAURS, ONE NAMED
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 56.171.23
Publication Record: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: NEW YORK, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART 4, 37-38, PL.(764) 36.1-4 View Whole CVA Plates Dietrich, N., Figur ohne Raum? Bäume und Felsen in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Image & Context 7 (Berlin, 2010): 383, FIG.318 (B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.540, NESSOS 30 (A) Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 432, FIG.313 (B)
CAVI Lemma: BF neck amphora. Unattributed. Last quarter sixth. Ca. 510 (Bothmer).
CAVI Subject: A: Heracles and Nessus, with Deianeira. B: Centauromachy: Kaineus with a
centaur on each side.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: above and to right of Heracles' head: hερακλες [[h(ε)]]{1}. B: above the
left centaur: Δασ[--]. Between the heads of the centaurs: νοσ{2}. Above the
right centaur: Σιμιας.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} syllabic heta. {2} very small in the ph., pl. 36,3; I think, Bothmer
reads this going up and complete, but it could perhaps be read retr. and down:
[--]σον, although there is very little space. Possibly combine with the first
inscription: Δασ[--(?)]σον(?). A compound of δασυς (?).
CAVI Comments: The phs. show the letters too small for individual identification. The
readings are Bothmer's. Simias is probably a variant of Simos, snub-nosed
(Bothmer). For the name cf. C. Fränkel (1912), 9, 21, 67; Rumpf (1927), 51;
Boardman (1955), 65. The vase was previously unpublished.
CAVI Number: 5711
AVI Bibliography: BADB 3765. — M.B. Moore and D. von Bothmer, CVA New York 4, USA 16 (1976),
pl. 36,1-4 (no bibl.) (sm.). — LIMC vi (1992), pl. 540, Nessos 30 (A) (Herakles
cl.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
